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Not ten minutes later near constant pressure told when Bristol City loanee Connor Lemonheigh-Evans thumped in the second with a first-time strike from outside the box to seal the three points.

“I just highlighted the fact that it’s going to be a long season if we keep conceding with a limited number of opportunities for the opposition that keep going in the back of the net,” Owers said of his half-time team talk.

“What I did ask for, and what I did get, was a really sharp start to the second half.

“I asked for that, I told them they had to get the ball moving quicker form side to side, get the wing-backs into the game a little bit more and open up spaces further up the pitch in the final third, and that happened.”

What pleased Owers most about the afternoon’s work? “The three points at the end of the game” was his first respsonse.

He added: “We started the second half well – if you take away the fact we’re probably the worst team in the league from kick-offs at the minute, and we ended up defending from that – but after that I thought we took the game to them; we looked solid.